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f • i •. * — i'lhii.' - is’'xX.. ■ WFWsML&m •r» ‘ ' • r v ^£\ ^ V ' ■ ‘ : ■ . . . ' ' «* . : 9 { S i ' jn *./, ' 5 ^ V '2i * ** • k , V. % 1 L.JK£ The Greorgia 'W'eekly Telegraph.. • , • -7]fj ? H 3 THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1800. No Congressional Election Until IS70. As tho subject of election of members of Congress is again being agitated, it may be Well for the information of the people to re-state what legal difficulties are in the way of such an election. The Ordinance adopted by the Con vention providing for an election of certain offi cers including Representatives in Congres, on 20th April, 1868, contains the following clause. “And shall continue in offioe till the regular succession provided for after the year 1868 and until successors are elected and qualified; so that said officers shall, each of them, hold their offices as though they were elected on the Tues day after the first Monday in November 1868, or elected or appointed by the General Assem bly next thereafter.” The House of Representatives of Congress of tho United States is composed of members chosen every two years, but chosen under tho laws of the different States as to the times of election, etc. The persons elected to Congress in April, 1868, received from Gen. Meade cer tificates of having received the highest number of votes, and the 40th Congress, in their eager ness to show how well their plan of Reconstruc tion worked, and to complete the matter, re ceived these persons as Representatives from tho State of Georgia. Wo have heard it said that their right as members of the 40th Con gress, was submitted afterwards to legal minds, and the opinion given that they were not enti tled under tho ordinance of election, etc. But it could not be undone. As to their rights as members of Forty-first Congress, had the clerk of the House at the opening of this Congress called their names, we have every reason to believe that the Democraticmembers would have voted to seat them in order to close still more effectually the reconstruction of Georgia. But be that as it may, they have certificates from Gov. Bullock not that they were elected to the Fortieth or Forty-first Congress of tho United States, but that under the ordinance of election, in April, 1868, they received the highest number of votes. Tho question of admitting them to the Forty- first Congress is left to that body. We see that they were elected as though they had been elec ted the Tuesday after First Monday in Novem ber 1868, which would have been for tho Forty- first Congress. We are satisfied that this ordi nance for the election was worded so as to avoid •any more elections in Georgia till November, 1870. Tho Tuesday after the First Monday in November, 1870, is the next regularly appointed ■day for an election under the Constitution for this State, and then members will bo elected to tho Forty-second Congress, so there is no chance oven for a pretext to hold an election before that time. Unseasonable Weather. The mercury on Sunday and Monday morn ings indicated some point between fifty and six ty. When we consulted it, about three quarters of an hoar after sunrise, it showed abont fifty- .trice and a fraction, but was doubtless consider- . ablylower earlier in the morning. This is re markable temperature for this season of the year. The skies, however, were cloudless both ■ days, and the indications aro that the rains are over. Summer temperature will return in a short time and then wo hope crops will go ahead - and recover lost ground. Chinese in Georgia. "A gentleman from New York, who is working "the Burr "Stone Quarry in Jefferson county, near No. fi,’Central Railroad, was in our office yes- 1 teifiay. He said he had taken measures to pro- <5ure fifty Chinamen, and would have thirty-five of them at work in these quarries. Ho held a very high opinion of the Chinamen and of his Georgia Bnrr Stone, too. He said the Northern and Western millers preferred his Burr, but the Georgians would have the French. Look ont for f’onnterfeit Money. Montezuma, Ga., Angnst 9,1869. Editor Macon Telegraph : Notify the citizens throngh yonr paper to guard against a man named Wright who visits your city attempting to pass counterfeit money. Citizen. Execution op Bob Abnold.—Bob Arnold, ne gro, was hung in Washington, Wilkes county, on Friday last, for the murder of Mr. Thomas Thaxton. The Gazette says ho met death with stolid indifference, but evidently hoped to the last that he would be reprieved or rescued by the loyal league. There were probably fifteen hundred or two thousand persons in attendance on this occasion, and quiet and order reigned. The colored peo ple were very orderly and quiet, which speaks well for them; it is hoped they may never again witness, in this county, the execution of one of their race for the crime if murder. Alabama Election.—The Columbus Sun says: From our Alabama exchanges wo glean the mor tifying intelligence that tho Democratic party has succeeded in electing but two Congressmen, Dox and Sherrod. The most mortifying part of it is that this result is not so much due to Radi cal frauds which were freely perpetrated every where, as to the fact that the white men of the State exhibited an indifference to the election that was utterly inexcusable. Comment is un necessary. The Babb Bessie Young fromliiverpool, which was telegraphed as ashore on St. Catharine’s bar, got afloat on Saturday and reached Savannah.— The difficulty was a derangement of her com pass. Much of the cargo of the Bessie Young -consists of crockery for B. A Wise, of Macon. The Republican says, “under all the circumstan ces we congratulate Captain Armstrong upon the fact that his fine bark is out of danger.” Iron Obe.—We have by express from Floyd oounty, some samples of iron ore procured and sent by our correspondent, B. These samples were picked up about seven miles from Cave - Spring, and opr correspondent says the supply is illimitable. We are not familiar with ores or metallurgy, but it seems to us that theso speci mens, from their appearance and weight, mnst contain about seventy-five per cent, of metal The Tennessee Election and Ha Moral This election is a frightful commentary upon Secretary Bout well’s certificate to Stokes that he is the only old original Jacob Townsend of radi calism and Senter is bogus.- Surely Tennessee must be in a condition of flagrant rebellion to have paid no more attention to Cabinet orders that all this comes to; and although some of the Northern Radical organs ridicule tho Courier- Journal’s story that Tennessee is to be revolu tionized and reconstructed under Stokes, the question arises whether the administration is going to submit to this sublime and rebellious contempt of its wishes and endorsements. To write to a radical State that Stokes is the only candidate entitled to any radical support —that the administration desires to see him elected, and if General Grant were only in Washington, ho would say the same thing; and then see precinct after precinct and county af ter county return not a solitary vote for Stokes and all for Senter, and to hear it stated by tele gram that Senter’s majority is likely to be sixty thousand or more—is exceedingly embarrassing, not to say provoking and inflaming. In fact, and “not to put too fino a point upon it,” it is insulting. It is as much as to say, we are total ly careless about your wishes and endorsement. If you will have Stokes Governor, you must come and set himnp in the business yourselves, for we are not going to do it Whether Mr. Boutwell. and a republican administration are going to stand this treatment, time must dis close. A Washington correspondent of tho Rich mond Dispatch, writing just before the news was received of the result in Tennessee, says: The Radicals are intensely anxious about the result of the election in Tennessee next Thurs day, and place great reliance of beneficial re sults to the Stokes party upon the recent letters of Postmaster-General Creswell and Secretary Boutwell. If they lose Tennessee, all hopes of carrying Mississippi and Texas will fade, and the party disintegration in the North will fol low much more rapidly than otherwise. That is certainly a very serious view to take of the matter; but we really anticipate no such fell results to radicalism to happen immediately on the heels of the Tennessee election. That was altogether a mixed np affair—turning upon temporary State issues, just like the election in Virginia—and the misfortune of Boutwell and the ultra radicals was that, according to their bent, they took the side of proscription, intoler ance and discord, when the drift, although they cannot see it, is strong as Niagara the other way. They were overwhelmed by the people. The people are tired of intolerance, proscrip tion and discord. They wish to close np this controversy about secession and rebellion, and consign it to the tomb of oblivion; and if poli ticians have not got sense enough to get out of the way, they will be run over. Tho war of words and bayonets between the sections has now lasted according to our computation about a generation, and the sensible people feel it is time to call np the next thing in order. They want a new topic. Hence the ranks of the men of peace, in Tennessee, were led by such political antipodes as Brownlow and Andy Johnson, and the whole Confederate column followed in the rear ; and though few of them could vote, they wielded a mighty influence ; and Boutwell, Stokes, Cres well and Grant, with their little file of East Tennessee ragomnffins and a scattering reernit- age of carpet-baggers and negroes in the other sections were lost in the deluge. Grant had enough of sense to keep him out of such a ridiculous muss in the Virginia elec tion, but no doubt he was overruled by Bout well and Company in this Tennessee business and placed in a false and foolish position contra ry to his own judgment We hope he will take warning and follow no snch blind guides in the Mississippi and Texas elections. Let Mm keep bands off—give the people a fair chance to reorganize as nearly in their own way as the situation and the unconstitu tional action of Congress will permit, and avoid embarrassing the people with unseasonable ap pointments of time—unfair registration and any illegal and needless embarrassments like those thrown in the way of Virginia by Gen. Canby. This will save them from a repetition of the suf ferings inflicted by Tennessee, and then let them quietly await tho turn of events—the new politi cal combinations and departures, which are evi dently in process of elimination. Tlie Cincinnati Exposition and West- ; University Commencement. ern Trade. ' j.. ‘ Athens, Ga., August 6th, 1869. The Great Western and Southern Textile Fab- Editors Telegraph : Wednesday witnessed the rio Exposition, at Cincinnati, is a grand success, close of the Commencement Exercises and to- Georgia is represented in it as follows: , day Athens indeed looks like, the“deserted vil- Fontenoy Mills, Augusta, Richmond county, lage.” Monday found this usually quiet little ?. a, ~t_ b ale, 20 pieces; Yarn, o0 bundles, 6 to place filled with anxious parents eager to bear 20. 1 bale shirting made of cotton yam. j f. . . , T”, “TTif n „d Eagle and Phcernx Mills, Columbus, Musco- ! their intellectual infant phenomenons amuse and — i n _ A y ll a anfa«4si n .. . onrl tVtft gee comity, Ga.—2 bales striped osnaburgs; 2 entertain an admiring auditory, and indeed the coils cotton rope. j orators showed that they were not only able to Augusta Cotton Mills, Augusta, Richmond bnt even muminate mankind. bale heavy drill. day morning by treating the large audience Macon Manufacturing Company, Macon, Bibb wMch had assembled in the chapel, to a recita- Ga -— 1 ba t° ” Macon sheeting; 1 bale jj 0110 f soine we n selected and cortainly well de- Houston Factoiy, Tooke, Cooper & Co., Hons- j Uvered 8 P«eches. Mr. J. T. Heard, of Aug™ t a, ton county, Ga.—2 bales 4-4 sheeting. j vr&a awarded the first medal, and Mr. E. G. Sim- Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Muscogee rnons, the second. During the afternoon, Col. county, Ga.—1 pieces heavy brown and mixed jj. jj. Johnston, of Baltimore, formerly a Pro jeans ; 8 pieces wMte, striped, mixed twills; I I f . ,. Colle „ e delivered a beautiful and piece brown kersey; 5 pieces jeans; 2pieces • , rmtGls ^° “ satinet; 3 pairs cotton blankets. chaste address, having for its subject, “the dead Trion Cotton Factory, Georgia—1 coil cotton ; of Georgia.” The Colonel was greeted at almost rope; 1 bale 4-4 Tnon sheeting. the en d 0 f eacb sentence with much applause, .«■“ .»*«.<» sboW E. Steadman, Covington, Ga.—1 bale cotton 11011 of 1510 many good Jungs said, and like Oli- yam; 1 bag No. 700 yam; 1 bag carpet chain. • ver Twist, still asking for more. Empire State Mills, Steadman, Ga.—1 bale | At night the chapel was filled with an audience No. 2 Batts. . ; 1 In respect to Southern fabrics contributed to ^ me j. together f 0 r the purpose of listening to the exMbition the Association passed the follow- ; t h e anniversary oration to be delivered by Ben. mg resolution unanimously: ; H. Hill, Junior. This speech was polished, Resolved, That we rejoice at the unexpected an d showed in its preparation that much mid- and varied excellence of tho goods sent from the , _ ,, South, and the welcome presence of visitors mgM> oil had been consumed. In the-absence from that region,which we trustmay be an omen ; of a better criticism, allow your correspondent of growth in commerioal and social intercourse \ to characterize it as “a good thing.” The young not only for the mutual benefit of our material; orator showed himself a worthy chip of tho old interests, but for cordial amity and good feel- ,, , ...... .... ing between the people in these portions of our I tdook, should the promise of his young life common country. be fulfilled, his shall be the honor—“the cp- This exhibition was conceived in a wise de- . plause of listening Senates to command.” sign to show the extraordinary progress wMch j After the speech the fasMonable portion of the West has made in all the arts connected Mr. Hill’s hearers wended their way to Mrs. with the manufacture of clothing material, and . Franklin's and there spent a most charming it has astonished the country. In manufactures evening in the enjoyment of a fancy ball, of machinery of all varieties—of mechanical, There were many very handsome ladies present, agricultural and household implements — in tbou g b ^P 011 this occasion it was not demon- . . . , .. strated that “beauty, when unadorned is adorned glass, shoes, hats, hardware and numerous other th ° mogt) ” f ° r tbel 4 wer0 beau tiM sylph-liko things, the West is now, to a great extent, sup- forms wrapped in lovely dresses—dresses wMch plying the South. To these she wishes to add a have been pronounced by a judge fes commene- business in cloths and clothing; and there ex- ; ^8 100 ^t®, and ending too soon! “»■» “ »”*.<»• '•* years, pretty mnea monopolize tlie Southern j and high sounding periods that the lectures of market for domestic goods. She can manufac- : Dr. Lipscomb for tho last few years have not ture more cheaply than the Eastern and Middle 150011 111 vain. Especially did Messrs. Dessau «-> —>■?»—•«': Js35a the Eastern protectionists cro realized—for she those eager to listen to the Orator of the occa- has the raw material and the food-producer sion, Mr. N. E. Harris, a ward of the Hon. A just at hand. Bread is cheap. Labor ordinarily 1 StepheM. ana a young manfdl of promise. I*-* <** T «v. cheap, and at the door. The climatic conditions was a boy—certainly a great compliment com- are all better than in the East. The East trans- ing from such a distinguished source. ports her raw material from OMo and the South ' Wednesday, the commencement day, wit- -her bread and meat from the West. Her ? e « od 1110 lar g eslcr °w d vrMch has met together . . , „ . „ . " . „ in Athens for many years, and at an early hour lumber from Maine, and iron and coal from the gallery, floor and windows of the chapel Pennsylvania, and yet expects to compete with ! were crowded to their utmost capacity by those those who have these supplies all around them. J seeing tho^elephant. Upon this ce lt is a vain hope. S¥ TELEGRAPH from Washington. Washington, August 9.—The Mexican Minister and Claims Commissioner arrived to-day. Prof. Harkneas telegraphs to the Superintendent of the Observatory here from St. Louis that the re sult of the eclipse observation was more favorable than his most sanguine expectations. . He took 12S photographs, two of the total eclipse. Revenue to-day, $920,000. Spinner is overwhelmed with demands for frac tional currency, but there is none on hand. The work on the Cast Iron light house at South West Pass, Mississippi, is ordered to be pushed to an early completion. The Collector of Revenue for the First Louisiana District, reports one hnndred and eighty-five thou sand increase for May, Jane and July, as com pared with the same months last year. Robeson leaves on an inspection tour along the coast, immediately after the Cabinet, on Tuesday. A meeting of the Union League is called at Phila delphia on the 11th of August, to make provision for the Texas and Mississippi elections. Congressman Hamilton, from Florida, is here en deavoring to oust tho Conservatives from the Pensa cola Navy Yard. Tho Mexican Minister presents his credentials to rn which beauty, worth, and talent figured large- morrow - Delano wants more clerks. Boutwell declines Delano’s imperative wants for . casion there were three speeches delivered, mnst eventually sue- . egpgcinUy worthy of mention—tho speeches of cumb to her disadvantages. Every year the | Messrs. Barrow, Finley and Van Epps. Mr. West is gaining upon her, and before another Barrow had for his subject tho words of Mr. decade she will be as clamorous for free trade as : Hantalim: “My life is one dom’d horrid grind,” she now is for protection. | but , Dr ‘ Lipscomhe e.steeming this too utterly duo ovy u. p uicouuu. , p ro f ane> required Mr. B. to alter the name to Meanwhile, every year will see the trade be- the more sober title of “Mantalini and Solo- tween the South and West increase, until event- mon." This speech teemed with the utmost ually we shall look to the Atlantic ports only for 8 ood 8enso 8113 humor, and by competent judges railway lines will do much of the carrying trade It was a glorious effort, and brought down the which is now done on the ocean. house. —*-• Mr. Finley delivered n well written speech in Letter from Sninter. a most effective manner, and showed himself Crops—Cool Weather and Rust—Nero Horse possessed of a high order of talent. His object Power. was to prove that “Our doubts are traitors, and Susiteb Couxrr, August 9th, 18C9. make 113 loso h»lf we might gain, by not daring Editors Telegraph : For the change in the tern- of otomnter was the subject of Mr. perature I will refer you to tho eclipse or the Van Epps’ story, and the manner in which he clerk of the weather for a solution. At this hour, discussed the matter clearly showed the pres- 8 a. m., it is indicated at 70. What effect it will ence of S” 01 t ? leEt a ? d intell . ect - . „ „ _ Tho “Struggles of Genius,” as related by Mr. have on the cotton crop is doubtful. I appre- Bonnell, were very funny, and some go so far as hend that it will check the rust which has de- to declare this speech a simple relation of Mr. stroyed the prospects of some of onr enterpris- B.’s private experiences. R. ing fanners in this section. A friend told me, a day or two since, that he had one field of an hnndred acres which was then past the “equity of redemption” with this fatal scourge. We have had, for ten days past, a bounteous fall of rain and our crops begin to show its ef- From Marlon County. RELIGIOUS MEETINGS AND INTELLIGENCE—INTER ESTING REVIVAL SCENES. Church Hill, Marion Co., Ga., ) August 2, I860.) Editors Telegraph : In my immediate neigh borhood we have had a drought of some length, labor. He will be supplied with clerks from other bureaus. Creswell is here. Sherman remains here until Friday, when ho will join Robeson’s inspection party on the Tallapoosa. Hoff will bring Lis flagship, Albany, home with him. , , The Internal Revenue Department contemplates a withdrawal of the present stamps, and issuing others less easily counterfeited and revamped. The Swiss Consul General has returned from his visit to tho Western Swiss Colonies, and reports them prosperous and contented. He predicts a heavy immigration-this year. Many go to Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The President arrives early to-morrow. De Rodas has been authorized to offer amnesty to Cubans. Important from Cuba. Havana, August 8.—The stringent rules for the collection of customs already show a remarkable increase in the revenue. Heavy rains prevemt military operations. Washington, August 8 The Cubans have offi cial advices to the 30th ult. Tho Spanish troops in the insurrectionary districts have been reinforced by all the disposable force on the Island, prepara tory to active operations. Several small engage ments in tho Ciuco Villas district resulted disas trously to the Spaniards, with a loss of four hun dred killed, wounded and prisoners. It is reported that the Cabans hold Holquin with its fortifications and stores. The Cespedes govern ment will be removed to Holqnin, as the position is very strong. Reinforcements from the United States continue to arrive. 225 men, enlisted in Indiana, Ohio and Eentucky, joined Quesada on the 28th, bringing arms, ammunition and a'large supply of camp equipago. The health of the Cubans is good. Gen. Bosecranz Declines to run for Gov ernor of Ohio. San Francisco, August 8. Hon. A. G. Thurman, Chairman of the Demo cratic Committee, Ohio : Sir: After the war I resigned a very desirable position in tho army, and left my State to secure at least the possibility of fulfilling dnties deemed aa- cred to my creditors and family. These dnties for bid me the honor of leading the Democracy of Ohio in their pending contest for Governor. (Signod) W. S. Eosecbanz. From New York. New Tone. August 8 It ig reported that another Cuban expedition will soon leave this port. The OhauDcy has arrived. Pratt, the alleged Texas rioter, was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal. Com missioner Whelan will bear the case on Thursday. Bowers, Beekman & Co., dty goods merchants, havo failed. Tlieir liabilities amount to thres mil lions. The failure is attributed to the steady de cline in woolens. Look Out nob Counterfeits.—A telegram from some anonymous source in Montezuma, yesterday, and elsewhere published, warns onr people to look ont for counterfeits. Wo know nothing abont the matter, but print the telegram in abundant cantion. The State Fair. Tho work of preparing the grounds of tho Laboratory for the Grand State Exposition will bo commenced to-day by one of the members of the Executive Committee, appointed for that purpose, and having a good deal of taste and practical experience in the business. He esti mates that the value of improvements on the grounds and building which mnst be abandoned and lost to the Society in case the bummers ob tain possession of the premises, will not exceed twenty-five hnndred dollars; and it is ques tionable whether an equal sacrifice would not attend any other selection, while the additional cost would bo much greater. Some active movements ought to be made to prevent the sale of ardent spirits within at least a mile of the exposition. They are a fruitful source of rowdyism, and tho honor of Georgia is at stake. There must be no rowdyism there. We trust no license to retail liquors near that place, either has been, or will be granted. We understand the Secretary is receiving a great many applications from all parts of the United States for room in the building for the exhibition of machinery and agricultural imple ments of every description. The show of the latter promises to bo very large and it is going to be a fine opportunity for onr planters to post themselves np in all of the improvements. The show of improved stock will also bo very ex tensive and comprehend some of the finest in the country. The Secretary, in his letter published in onr last edition, recommends the county clubs to come prepared to camp out, and that will doubt less be cheap and pleasant. Bat there is also a good deal of Hotel room and private house room in Macon, and by tho grace of God we can pack away many a soul. Let nobody be scared, therefore, by the talk abont tents. "When the pineb comes we shall find ourselves like an om nibus—never full. fects. A second growth lias supervened, and I beginning about the 20th of June and lasting un think and hope if this cool temperature will stay , ” “ , _ the rust, we will make a good top crop. til the 23rd of July. Both com and cotton crops The com crop, where the partial rains de- are very materially injured—forward com pro- scended, is pretty fair; but where the drought bably cut off about ono third; time must yet ttecttoncoptain- ered. In this immediate neighborhood the jured. The growth of the plant has been great- drought was severe, and tho heat intense and ly retarded where the crop is forward, and much damaging. . . of the forward fruit has been thrown off. In ColnmbiiM Matters. In Columbia, as weseo from the papers of .that city, the eclipse was probably more invisi ble, on account of the clouds, than in Macon. The Son, however, says it was dark enough for -the chickens to go to roost and the printers to light their nightly gas. We clip the following ifrom the San: Passenger Depot.—We are glad to Ieamthat this large structure for the accommodation of . trains on all onr railroads, is fast approaching completion. The building has just been hand somely covered with tin. Though not so com modious or handsome as the one at Macon, still it will answer the use of our roads very well, and enhance greatly the comfort of the travel' ing public. Cotton Picsrso.—We learn from Mr. Tom Gammel that his cotton is opening finely, and that he will be ready to go to picking about the middle of the coining week. A Good Old Age.—The Nashville Banner says a negro called Lucy Thurman is alive, healthy and able to walk, in Albany, Kentucky, who, by indubitable records, was bom in Han over county, Virginia, in 1750 and is now 119 years old. ' In the Cheney Case.—The civil court sus tained the injunction sued out by Rev. Mr. Cheney, and the case will go upon appeal to the Supreme Court of Illinois. As the first step toward the removal of tho Washington Capital to the Mississippi Valley, tea Weat will, at the uftt session of Congress, protest further appropriiti government buildings in Wasbnj Georgia Press Convention.—This body is an nounced to meet in Atlanta on the 24th instant. We may not have it in our power to be present, but we send them at least the benefit of onr ex ample, which is, nelver to send a newspaper to a subscriber who has not paid for it, or do work of any sort on snch terms as will not afford a reasonable profit. Better than do either, shnt up shop and go at something thatwill yield you a living—keep a store, dig the ground, hire out yourself for a dry nurse, do just anything rather than work for other people gratis and pay yonr own expenses, as three-fourths of the newspaper men of this and other States are doing. What can you buy at old prices now exoept newspapers and newspaper advertising ? [Satannah Republican. The Norfolk papers chronicle the arrival there on Saturday of a number of immigrants of both sexes, from the interior of Germany, bound f«M' i for Western North Carolina. They l&uiied in I Norfolk from the New York steamer. . ■> "J of the iron-ribbed of the Empire of Dooly conn- tho leaf making holes jnst the size of the spot, ty. They complained heavily of no cotton—no The other part of tho leaf turns yellow and it is But I did sea something at Col. Hamilton's coln0 diseased, and ceases to grow. This is the which I believe will be of great use to the cotton condition of a portion of my crop, and in addi- I growing region; which is a patent practical tion to this it is also throwing off all its forms as jiorse power saving machine, applicable to gins M and mills. The Colonel happened to have bis J. ploughs near his gin and had one mule hitched are D0W b ttvin g fine seasons and I trust it and ginned out fitty pounds of cotton with as- may take a second growth, and yet make a top tonishing facility. It certainly. is destined to crop. Forward corn is abont made and the fattedThESi?‘^Bottom, o^Thomas- rains ™ ar ° now havin e ar0 to ° lato to ben ? fit ville, Ga. I hope he will have one at yonr Fair it much. Some persons are already gathering that all the cotton raising community may see fodder. Later com will undoubtedly be better, it, and if able, profit by it. The Colonel says jn fact I think it will bo very good, and wc may he would not be without it for any consider- t h to mflke nlm03t aQ a e of ation. We are doing the wind work of a rail- J 1 ° road from Hawkinsville, via Americas to Flor- corn - ence, on the Chattahoochee, and thonce to Sil- . At this place, “Church Hill,” there are three ver Run, Ala. We need this road to reduce the churches—Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist, present monopoly which the S. W Railroad A t two of these, Baptist and Methodist, a religi holds over this section. F. A. H. ’ 1 ous revival has been progressing abont thirteen The Fence Question. ' closing l^ast Friday evening. It was indeed Buena Vista, Marion Co., Ga., > a 8 racioas time = Lord P°“ ed out 1x13 s P irit July 21, 1809.) upon this people and his divino presence was Editors Telegraph : I notice in your last pa- felt b 7 both saint and 8inner - Thirty were add- per a report and discussion on the fence ques- od to the Baptist Church by experience and tion, in which the committee report 40,704 by letter, and sixteen or eighteen to the rails which it will take to fence in 200 acres in Methodist Church. °3 acre lots 1 Daring the progress of the meeting at tho * „ . . . .. . - Baptist church, a circumstance occurred, the re- Isow let ns ventilate that report to see if they j at j on c f wb j c b m »y prove interesting to some have made an accurate statement. It takes 28 Q f y 0 nr readers. The services had been con- panels to cross ono acre; it takes five acres tinued eleven days, twenty-five had been added across a 25 acre lot—1400 rails. Then 8 strings to the church, when the minister, without con- , _ , , . „„ suitin'.' tlif > members of the church or the peo- of fence across lo acres, four each way—33,600 p] e> cb)sei j *be meeting. Most of the congrega- rails, which at one dollar per hundred for split- tion had gone home, and all the others were in ting and pntting np, is $336 against $752, tho act of getting off, when a young man was which makes a difference of $416. discovered standing b Y a tree weeping and in m ... . ... . .. great mental distress. All the members of the They, m order to get this astounding sum, who hfld DOt gone h omo, gathered make a line around every lot, and charge one abound him. One of thorn asked him what was dollar for timber for each hundred rails split, the matter and why he did not go home ? which I think is ridiculous. ! He 8aid bo Mt jike he was lost and was not , . , „ willing nor conld not leave the house until he Now what does this kind of reasoning show ? uld | et reJief be said he feltlike he was the It proves that they are afraid for the question to meane ° t of all God’s creatures, tho most sinful be put mite true light before the people, and £ ube} Ho b d the Ie of make such statements for effect; for they know G d t for ^ 0n8 0 f the tathna did very well that they, nor nobody else, have ever ^ nlld L,Awards one of the sisters, paid such prices for fences. He still refused all solicitation to le&ve the Now, suppose the no fence law was to p _s, cburcbf wou id not go to his own home nor to what would be the result» Oh. says somebody, ^ bo me of any brother or sister present -until stock would bo finer, because they would be bet- a d lo £ oet and bola ger 4 e8 again at ter cared for. Well, 1 cannot see how that tak- 5< / cl « kp . of :he same evening. At the ing cattle off the range and fencing them on bonr he gave the church satisfactory some poor spot to starve to death will improve e $ dence thafc G od, for Christ’s sake, had par- N“W, Messrs. Editors, I thin^thatsuch a law, 1010 ““** U blow that l ^ Wehad preaching again at night, when six could be struck at the farming interest. If the ott can £ forwar | a f candidates for baptism, farmer tears down hui fences from around his meeting still progressed two days longer, fields he cannot turn Ins own stock on them after dnring time three others were^ added to they are gathered, and, consequently, be cannot ^ lnaking in all ten who joined the fatten bogs or cattle, and will have to dispense cbarcb professing conversion after the minister with nearly aU the comforts of bfe- Hei taffl had ac { u V close K d tha meeting. Does not this have to take his cotton money- and buy all his meat, which I think would bankrupt any fanner. And not only this, but keeping stock up causes fever of the most malignant type, creating heavy doctor bills and causing many deaths. Redbone. appear wonderful and mysterious? Verily, it seemeth so to me. More anon. V^ry truly, etc., W. B. S. General News. Fortress Monroe, August 9.—Capt. Tucker, of the schooner Francis Satterlee, from Sangna, died of yellow fever at quarantine to-day. Augusta, Angnst 9.—The caterpillar is reported is some sections of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina—no serious damage as yet. The weather has been chilly for two days—ther mometer down to 70. Cleveland, O., August 9.—Tho proprietor of the Lake View House, mistaking his son for a burglar, last night, killed him. ■Washington, August 8.—Nashville additional re turns indicate 65,000 majority for Senter in Ten nessee. Bichmond. August 8.—Major N. A. Sturdivant, a prominent lawyer and elected Mayor of the city in 1866, but rejected by the military, died to-day. Foreign News. London, August 8.—Midnight—The Canada Loan Bill has passed the House-of Commons. The old Cablo Company has reduced the tariff be tween any point of Great Britain and New York to seven and a half dollars in gold, for ten words, and seventy-five cents in gold for each extra word; press one-half rates. Tho reduction commences August the tenth. Constantinople, August 9.—Tlio difficulty be tween the Sultan and Vice Boy of Egypt will be am icably settled. Madrid, August 9 In consequence of tha par ticipation of the clergy in the Carlist demonstra tions, Minister Znella orders Bishops to issue a cir cular recommending the clergy to obey the laws and threatening the withdrawal of tho power to preach and hear confession from all disobedient. Paris, August 9.—Tho Senate's committee has adopted the first article of the senatus consultum. The disposition of the Senate is favorable to tlie whole project. Eugenie departs eastward on the 24th inst. Attorney General Farrow’ll Opinion. When do County Elections take place in Geor- OXaf— Tbur 1stnn sjsi .itfit'.erti nr.ri Gensrnl gtaf—How long do these officers and General Assemblymen hold ?—Farther Legislation nec essary. , 1 ‘ • The following important opinion, addressed by Attorney General H. P. Farrow, to Governor Bullock, on the time of holding elections for county officers, has been hended to us for pub lication. We invite the attention of our readers to it: •, Attorney General’s Office, ) Atlanta, Ga., August 7, 1869. j" Governor: Your communication of the 3l6t ultimo, with enclosed papers, came duly to hand, and I have given them that consideration which the importance of the question presented de- mands. The question submitted, and npon which yon ask for my written opinion, is one which has been propounded to me by a number of county officers who were not, under the law, entitled to the opinions of the Attorney -General, and to whom I did not therefore feel at liberty to ten der any opinion. There is great difference of opinion among the people as to when the next election for county officers will take place, and it is very proper that the question should bo au thoritatively answered and put at rest The Constitution itself, and not the Code, de termines the term for which comity officers have been elected, and those who insist that the election for connty officers will take place next winter, betray great ignorance of the Constitu tion upon which they have so recently voted. The 9th Article of tho Constitution says: “The comity officers recognized as existing by the laws of this State, and not abolished by this Constitution, shall, where not otherwise pro vided for in this Constitution, be elected by the qualified voters of their respective counties or districts, and shall hold their offices for two years.” Therefore, it is clear that by virtue of the 9 th Article of the Constitution, comity officers will hold their offices for two years unless it is otherwise provided for in the Constitution. Does the Constitution otherwise provide ? and if so, to what extent ? It does otherwise pro vide in the case of every county officer elected in the election which commenced on the 20th day of April, 1868. That election was held under and by virtue of an ordinance adopted by the Constitutional Convention on the 10th of March, 1868; and all civil officers eleoted under the Constitution, by the people, were then elected, except Justices of the Peace. That ordinance provides that all officers elect ed at that time shall “hold their offices as though they were elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1868,” and it moreover provides that they “shall continue in office till the regular succession provided for after the year ISOS, and until successors are elected and qualified.” The Constitution itself affirms the validity of that ordinance and gives it all the force and power to be derived from a Constitu tion,—hence the present county officers will hold their offices for more than two years from the time they were elected, bnt after the first regular succession such officers will only hold for two years,—except in cases where the Con stitution fixes a different term, as in the case of the office of Ordinary which is for four years. Those who contend that the old election laws contained in the Code, and found from Section 1345 to 1350 inclusive, are still of force and must control the next election for county offi cers, and bring on the election nearly one year before the offices can possibly become vacant, should remember that all our laws governing elections were rendered entirely inoperative, obsolete, null and void by the’Reconstration Laws and our Constitution. H these sections of the Code are of force now of course they have been of force all the time since they were first made a part of our law. If they were of force at the time of the election on the 20th of April, 1863, then it follows that there has been no election of county officers under the Reconstruc tion Laws. H that election was not valid, then the whole reconstruction of the Southern States was without authority of law. If, on the other hand, it is admitted that the present incumbents were legally elected, then it follows that the Re construction Laws and the Constitntion prevail over said sections of the Code, and that at that time those sections were superseded, obsolete, and void. If they were void, then what has since re-enacted them ? They were inoperative and voidthen, and aro to this day; for whenalaw is once annulled it is annulled forever, and con only exist again by re-enactment. II n nmi been the purpose of the framers of the Constitution, who also framed this ordinance, to recognize these sections of the Code as still of force, why would they have disregarded them in the last election ? There can be no doubt that under the changes wrought by the Reconstruction Laws, and the new Constitntion, those sections of the Code, under which it is contended by some, tho elec tion for county officers should be held next Jan uary, are ontirely obsolete, and that the General Assembly must provide for an election and suc cession, jnst as it has in the case of Jnsticos of the Peace, before any election can be held for county officers. If there shonld be no provis ion made by the General Assemby at its next session for an election and regular succession, then by virtue of that provision of the Consti tntion which provides they shall hold till their successors are elected and qualified, they would simply continue in office until the next General Assembly conld provide for an election. Therefore it is my opinion that there is at this time no law regulating the time for the election of county officers, and that before any election can be held there must be further legis lation. I am, very respectfully, Hekbt P. Farrow, Attorney GeneraL His Excellency Rufus B. Bullock, Governor of Georgia. John had never heard at a IruriMc r~~ -, feasor of ethics, bnt he looked at the m * 1 ono«s , <* Marnea mm a lesson worth thousand dollars, and therefore he b.» t T 5 s| uuuars, ana therefore he 7 C ! I to accept the money as a present. bSw'M and that the man who play?against The Alleged Resistance to the sw. I tion of Revenue in WiHeJwl The Washington, Wilkes County Gazett* I tiring the complaint of Belcher, and the .tZ I of United States troops in that place to e^’l the collection of the Revenue, says : 0l * I We suppose it a waste of time and nm*. deny this report of Belcher’s, still, for „ “ ^ '= satisfaction, we will show the utter f*l^ 'T as far as regards Wilkes county, andZ V.M ington (the county site) is made the iff. ^ I tors of the troops sent to enforce the^ 0 *^''I laws, the inference is, that this connK-fvZ 83 ’ I the chief offender in the Third DistriT^ I don’t know how many Assistant Assent have resigned in Belcher’s District hnf.i-.**71 do know: Only one man has ever con»5*,£! I county and announced himself as AsZ , tfcs [ sessor under Belcher. This man-ZZv^ I on—took charge of the books andpatZ'^'l dutieswithont molestation. he found no associates amonogia. tabooed him, not because be was an Internal Revenue, but because to 1 under a negro. u Wo assert, without fear of contradiction a.. I no threat or offer of violence was made fn’vf" I Ion during liis stay here; but the t e M about the streots, both black and white S the black “^mins^ .are far in excess of & white,) aid ndtcule lum by calling out to J; I Profits of Baying Lottery Tickets, The Savannah Republican tells the following excellent story with a moral: A Shrewd Colored Man.—Wo have heard a good story of a colored voter named John, who resides at a place not quite a thousand miles from Savannah. John has a “boss” who is fond of the excitement of playing at the game known as “lottery polioy,” bnt ho does not like to be seen in such offices and so ho famishes John with the numbers and the money to play npon them. Now John has learned to read, and is very fond of reading newspapers, and some seven or eight months ago he read astory about a lady who was in the habit of dreaming abont numbers and giving her hnsband money to play other like taunts, but.not a man said a worifl or of him, while some even tried to stoii V I boys from teasing him. Nealon. we sunn.- I become ashamed of the position he h«MT-'l left town the next day,and we havo never iZl of him since. Now if any white man thinZ j can hold on office under a negro, without bet-1 held m oontempt by both white and bkeiZI advise his friends to send him to a Lunatic i I sylum until cured of his folly. He comd-o'-f such a position in New York, without me« 'I with contempt from all decent people, " I Belcher knows, as well as anvman ia tbl State, that this is a law-abiding communitv.f; 1 he lived here, taught school here, and fo--\- himself on the county as Representative br K | election, held under the cover of bayonctsV | the direct supervision of military officii;. ' 1 Macon County Tax Returns. Oglethorpe, Ga., August 7,18CS. Editors Daily Telegraph: Gents—enel>;;| you will find statement of taxable proper.- j Macon connty for 1869, which you will pfe publish: . ' . ’ * Polls fwhite) - a Polls (colored). Professions 2 Children between 6 and 18 ^ Orphnns ....i.; No hands employed between 12 and G5..... Total number acres land.......... 2n;>.| Total value land 5S33.il City and town property. tjlliyJ Value shares ia national bank..;...... l,n." Money and solvent debts..213,« Merchandise...................... '<a,S Stocks and bonds....:. Value household furniture, planta tion tools above the value - of $300 Value all other property Sll"« Aggregate value of whole property... l,ft)S,5ii| Aggregate value after deducting $200 l,4St(f| Amount tax on polls and professions > r | T. J. TVisn, T. k Misery and Anarchy in Spain.—The are by no means the most formidable enexi •witn wmen tne rspanisnaovermuout Ao«. a, j Want, beggary, brigandage and anarchy are r pant in certain provinces. At Malaga, Va tia, Seville, Toledo and other largo towns, i laws are no longer in force. Everybody 4J that which is right in his own eyes. Tee ja rial functionaries complain that they power to support them, and that they are pr erless to punish crime. The offenders ; law and order increase in number and and One small town near Cindad Real was i invaded by a band of brigands, who enter:in houses seriatim, and fired on all who «T' After eating an excellent supper, and ( what property they conld find, they dep- carrying off three young ladies belongingt tinguisked families. Two persons were ' and several wounded by these miscreant', social state of Spain is undoubtedly deplori- From Decatur County. Baindeidoe, Aug. 5th, 1869. Editors Telegraph : I arrived here by the “Bandy Moore" from Columbus. Passage quick and only $6.00. Everywhere I have seen the best crops of corn and cotton. Especially did I observe this on the 1 Chattahoochee river. I hear some complaints of caterpillar at this point—the rainy season, which continues, being quite favorable for their increase. The rast has also appeared in some localities. Mr. B. F. B niton is'in Columbus on railroad interests. The people here are exultant over their prospects generally. The fine brick hotel of Mr. Jno. Sharron will be completed by this fall. It is a beautiful structure of. three stories, and an ornament to Bainbridge. The “Sun” nnd “ Argus" are flourishing. If Bainbridge don't wake np on a railroad from here toNowton and Albany the Thomaavillians will beat her at last. Rain continues. “Occasional.” An enterprising Yankee is charged with swind- ^ ^ ling Richmond negros ont of money by repre- the splendor produced by a fall"harvest moon. . The Eclipse is Augusta.—In Augusta the skies were clear and they had a good view of the eclipse. The Chronicle and Sentinel says : At 4-o’clock in the afternoon the first faint darkening of a shadow on the face of the sun could be seen in this city, with the assistance of that rather primitive but universally used as tronomical instrument, a piece of smoked glass. At 5 o’clock the encroaohments of the shadow had continued until nearly a third of the lumi nary’s surface was invisible. From that time it increased until between half past five and six o’clock its effect was very plainly perceptible. The obscuration of so much of the sun caused— not darkness—but the city to be bathed in a flood of light, brighter than twilight yet not fainter than the dawn, and bearing streng resemblance to Health of Hon. Jefferson Davis.—We have Renting himself as the bead-centre of the Grand j This lasted bnt a few minutes, however, and then the pleasure (says the New Orleans Picayune) of Gnyascntus, and initiating them into an imagin- j the shadow rapidly began to pass away. At a announcing to our readers that in a letter very ar Y secret society. ’ few minutes after 0 o'clock the sun burst forth lottery policy,” how the husband put her money in a box and did not purchase any policy ticket, but took home a copy of the drawing every night and paid her all the prizes she drew and how on Now Year’s day he told her she had nt last “hit” the lottery and drawn a handsome little prize, and gave her the money whioli re mained in the box, after paying ail the prizes she had drawn during the year. Upon reading this story a bright idea made its way throngh John’s wool. He reckoned up the amount of money his “boss” had given him to buy tickets and the amount of prizes drawn, and found that former largely exceeded the latter. From these premises John reasoned thus: My “boss” is fond of of playing “Lottery Polioy; ’ my “boss” always loses and the lottery man al ways wins; ergo—I may as well win my “boss’s” money as for the lottery man to win it. It don’t make any difference to my “boss” whether the lottery man or John wins his money, but it makes a differeece to me, because in one case the lottery man gets it, and in the other I get it. So John procured a small tin box, in which ho deposited all the money his “boss” gave him withwhiohto purchase “Lottery Policy Tick ets,” but bought no tickets. He continued, however, to take the numbers and the money from his “boss,” to furnish him with a copy of the drawing every day, and jto pay him from the box all the prizes which his “boss” would havo drawn npon the numbers famished if he had purchased tickets, and at the end of six months John counted the money in the box, and found that after paying all the prizes drawn by the numbers furnished by his “boss,” it con tained the handsome little sum of two hundred dollars. At first John was very much elated with his success in winning money from his “boss,” but after awhile fee began to feel un easy abont the two hundred dollars in the box. and began to reason with himself thnsly: “My ’ boss' pays me good wages, ho gives me plenty of. good victuals to eat, and a nice bed to sleep in, mid he don’t require me to work hard, and now I have got two hun dred dollars of his money in that little box which did not cost me a cent, and I don’t feel right abont it, so I don’t. Something tells me that I ought to give him the money and tell him how badly he has been fooled- But suppose I had purchased the tiokets as he told me to do, would not the lottery man have had this money, and would he now think of paying it baok ? Cer tainly he wonld have it, and would never think of paying it back. Why, then, shonld. I not keep it ? I paid all the prizes drawn, just as the lottery man would have done (in fact I was the lottery man), and therefore! have fairly won the two hundred dollars, and have jnst the announcing to our readers tnat m & letter very ....... . . ... . - ..... - . .. . ., . . j-. , recently received from him bv & relative of his, > The Dixon (Illinois) Democrat says that a in all its brightness, and a phenomenon had j same right to keep it as the lottery man would __ _ xa -- —a- - ' ^ jgBg ‘ «[ ““*■" ’ “ — * borit an have had N. I had purchased the -tickets froia 1 him and hr had paid the prize* as I Mr. Davis speaks of his health as "by no means tombstone in tbe cemetery, in that city bears vanished which the grandson of • babe boi as precarious as has been lately represented. ! simply the suggestive epitaph,: “Gone up.” I that day will Maxoely live to S6* repeated. Dry Weather in Rome.—The Commerdi { tbe 4th, says: Old weather chronometers , informed as« if if rained the first dog day, that we woddH good seasons for forty days. Well, it rabeiij first dog day, but no rain has made ths 1 glad since. Dust is the order of the day. Our Inexhaustable Resources.—A estimated to contain over ten millions of * miles, each mile being capable of three hundred and fifty persons orf the present population of the earth, tyl of this boundless expanse of territory sources, what folly to oppose the emir" thither of any race or condition of men. Good Price for a. Hors*.—This wees - Frank Freeman sold his fine horse, Judge Nichols, for one thousand dollars j This horse was foaled and bred upon Mr. • man’s place, five miles from Griffin. He' sired' by Tom Robison’s old horse, Griffin Stai\ Two New York ladies stopped their c on a crossing. One went into a store i other remained in tho carriage. Two E? men wishing to cross the street ordered coachman to move on. The lady in th e c - told him not to stir. On this one of the g men opened the coach door, and with -ry and spurs stepped throngh the carna? was followed by his companion, to the f- discomposure of tbe lady within, as well 1 lady without. To complete the jest, a p» sailors coming up, and relishing the scrambled through the carriage. ’a’hk Reformed Church inNew York jgj very fortunate in their real estate ‘ ra! ^V.. They rented the old church iu hasssn-stipj] a postoffice, and for many years OJJ* J $20,000 per annum. Then theysoldit^'1 000 and bought six’lots in Fifth $30,000, which are worth 200,000. 1 .-v bought, about thirty years ago, fo*g**\J fayette place, on which they also bnilt& "' For these lots they paid $10,000. |.' ask $400,000, and will probably getthW: The “Avitor” or flying machine ~:.‘ 5 course of construction at San Francis^ • \ a partial success. It will navigate the calm, but the slightest breeze j movements. The Chronicle thinks1 inventor shonld ever start for New ” -I would be quite as likely to bring D P ' 1 Horn or the North Pole. President Grant and party have be€ ? r , around in New Jersey. He went f° * i estate of Messrs. Campbell and Bne* “yv Stetson the other day, when the ehilm* " ed his feet with flowers, the men new.^ his hand off, and finally presented , fifty-acre lot which, according 1° th® ^ Jenkins, “he thankfully accepted. That . venerable abolitionist, ley, has been making an inspection ricultural and mineral resources of * Virginia, and opens his eyes in.wond ^ Horace swears it is the finest timber®" in the world and has discovered iron ore sufficient to supply the 9 to oome, besides hearing vaguely 1 r ^fii eral treasures. It is singular to fino ably a Southern State appears, ev8B ■ j of a Tribune philosopher, when not hobby. fri^l trW im Personal.—We congratulate onr proprietor of Hagan’s Magnolia BsRft sudden and wonderful success of ia» lighful and valuable Toilet artiole. (who are beyond question the bert J matters pertaining to their beauty . ment) have universally endorsed Balm, and great quantities of « shipped daSy to afl P*rt« of t the hnmenae demand. We le«n now cocsidfMrsW evening out a bottle of Magnolia Balm, tedj* Freckles and dWoratioM CiuW tii Y< be au W, tei kit ins cu] Mt me a&< ter cir 8 P< »hf set agi lac ooi the So, to ] Dr \.M -•®*c the . tal